Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Repsol YPF - The final solution

Yesterday, April 16th, the president of Argentina announced the expropiation of Repsol oil subsidiary YPF, with a estimated value of 8,000 million Euro.

The spanish prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, has developed a new plan to force Argentina's government to come back to the dialogue table.


As far as I can see, that's the best solution to the YPF crisis.

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Inert matter, living matter and intelligent matter

Matter, as the Oxford English Dictionary says, is a physical substance in general, as distinct from mind and spirit. We can separate the matter in three different kinds: inert matter, living matter and intelligent matter.

What's the significant difference between living matter and intelligent matter? Maybe there's just a slight difference. Maybe some of the animals and plants we see as just living matter are also intelligent. Maybe viruses and bacterias are intelligent. And maybe not everybody is intelligent.